The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22
SHE, TOO, COULD SHINE.
The Way in Which the San Francisco
Millionaire's Wife Does Things.
From. the Carson (Neu.l Appeal.

From, the Carson (Nep) Appeal.
A few days ago lady from San Francisco,
who had a very solid bank account, went to
Lake Tahoe on pleasure trip with her daugh-
ter. She concluded that she would have good
time, and accordingly took along some plain
serviceable clothes and no jewelry. When she
struck one of the fashionable resorts she found
herself in the midst of lot of people making
vulgar display OF clothes and diamonds, and
every time she turned around she was the sub
ject of the most unmerciful snubbing. She
was put off in an obscure corner to eat.
and not one of the fashionable guests conde-
scended to show her the slightest civility.
The lady bit her lips for few days took in the
situation and with true feminine instinct de-
cided on revenge. She dropped line below,
and presently there were deposited at the hotel
twelve Saratoga trunks, waybilled to her adj
dress. She and her daughter retired to their
rooms, and that evening came down to the din
ing room in blaze of lace and diamonds that
took everybody's breath away. No such gor-
geous or tasty toilets had ever bewidered the
guests at that hotel before 1t blinded the eye
to look at the pair as they quietly entered the
room. The steward, after recovering his poise,
rushed forward and pulled out two chairs from
the most fashionable table in the hotel She
shook her head and replied: The old table will
do, and went to the obscure corner where she
had eaten all the time.
The utmost CONSERVATION spread through the
dining room, and the low hum of voices rose to
fashionable buzz as they warmly discussed
Cle SITUATION WASH Z IL aWIulI Iney Hau DeSH
Stumbling a woman and her daughter all the
week who could outdress them all. In the
evening they attempted to hedge, but couldn't
to any considerable extent. The dudes tried TO
shine up to the girl, but she wouldn't have it,
and those who tried to scrape an acquaintance
with the mother found it like trying to run
tunnel into an iceberg, For while she flashed
like comet through that hotel into a constant
change of ravishing toilets each more costly
and bewildering than the Others until, like the
kings who pedestrianized in Macbeth, they
threatened to stretch out till the crack of
doom.
AT the end of the week, it was learned from
the chambermaid that she had only gone
through half of her immense Saratogas. There
We're several women there who had displayed at
least dozen different toilets and they felt that
they would just die if she beat their record
But she kept right on, and when she was three
ahead of their score they packed up and left
rank and file capitulated, displaying the rarest
generalship imaginable. If Mrs. appeared
in any special color to make a spread in the
morning, she adopted that color at once, only
in a dress that eclipsed the other as the sun
outshines the dog star.
She was the absolute John Sullivan of the
toilet ring, and Knocked out all who had the te
merty to stand before her. The last of her OPP
ponents was a red-faced, vulgarly dressed
woman from San Francisco whose fiashy toilets
had attracted general attention and admira-
ton from persons Ignorant of harmony and
color. Whatever dress, this woman donned in
the morning the fashionable Nemesis was on
her trail with color that literally killed the
other. The heretofore cock of the walk was un-
able to stand her defeat, and, packing her
trunks, started home.
The army of snobs was routed and one by one
dropped out of sight. They just settled up and
quit Then the quiet little lady resumed her
plain clothes, put on an old straw hat with her
daughter, and went fishing AS the last gang
left, she absolutely had the GOODNESS to be down
at the wharf fishing In an old calico dress, cot
ton gloves and straw hat.
The landlord considered that she literally
cleaned his place out, and she thinks she had an
awful lot of fun.